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| On 25/08/2013, at 9:17 AM, "Steve Oakley" <steveo@practicali.com> wrote: > > On Aug 24, 2013, at 4:51 PM, James Culbertson <albion@speakeasy.net> wrote: > >> On Aug 23, 2013, at 11:50 AM, Jim Tierney wrote: >> >>>>> I have to say that I think Adobe's method of business with creative cloud is the best idea so far. Make the purchase price of your product more attainable at a longer stretch profit and more people will be inclined to purchase. >> >> The biggest issue for Adobe that I can see is their educational CC group pricing. I am going to be teaching career and technical education classes in Graphic Design and Video Production at our local high school and they cannot afford Adobe CC educational pricing in any of its forms. So we will be teaching FCPX/Motion instead of Premiere/After Effects. We are still on Adobe CS2 (running on Windows 7 in BootCamp because it does not run on OSX 7 and to be compatible with a Roland Vinyl Cutter) and Photoshop Elements 6. We are not alone by any means. > > you know the entire point of CC is that everyone stays current, and gets more frequent updates. the entire we're on CS2/3/4 goes out the window and everyone is on CC now. in fact I think its a very serious disservice to the students to be teaching them FCP X / Motion as the primary apps because they just don't have market share. you'd be better off using FCP7 because that resembles most other NLE's. I suppose whats worse is that the students may well have adobe CC on their own laptops. I've seen that a lot. you know those kids are paying perfectly good money to learn whats current and relevant and not be using apps that are 6 or 7 years old. why not simply require the students to have their own machine with CC ? its quite common these days, not different than buying books for a class. I'm with James, as a university faculty teaching arts education (most definitely not a growth area if you know anything about Australian politics), being core business for us obviously we have a higher budget than schools, but we will have to stay with CS6 suite for as long as adobe supports it, then look at other options. This will be the first software we have NOT kept current, and update our 10 mac labs at the end of every 14 week semester, and hardware every 3 years. Unless bulk educational CC subscriptions become more affordable for a single faculty, (initial quote was $300 thousand for a site license that only 2 x faculties use, needless to say the answer to that was NO), we'll have to use alternatives. ta UTS CRICOS Provider Code: 00099F DISCLAIMER: This email message and any accompanying attachments may contain confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient, do not read, use, disseminate, distribute or copy this message or attachments. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete this message. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except where the sender expressly, and with authority, states them to be the views of the University of Technology Sydney. Before opening any attachments, please check them for viruses and defects. Think. Green. Do. Please consider the environment before printing this email. |
